CPI Research

  • American men and women born since 1980—the millennials—have been less upwardly mobile than previous generations of Americans. 
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    Date:
    June, 2019
    Author:
    Michael Hout
    • For men, the conventional “gloomy millennial stories” have some merit, as the median income of millennials is lower than that of Gen X, and the median earnings of millennials are not any higher than those of Gen X.
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      Date:
      June, 2019
      Author:
      Christine Percheski
      • Relative to Generation X, millennials took out more student loans, took out larger student loans, and defaulted more frequently. 
        Date:
        June, 2019
        Author:
        Susan Dynarski
        • Millennials are more likely than previous generations to identify as multiracial. 
        • Millennials also are more likely to adopt unconventional gender identities, such as reporting that they see themselves as equally feminine and masculine. 
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          Date:
          June, 2019
          Author:
          Sasha Shen Johfre, Aliya Saperstein
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            Date:
            June, 2019
            Author:
            Harry J. Holzer
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              Date:
              June, 2019
              Author:
              Bruce Western, Jessica Simes

              We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry and household moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality.

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              Date:
              May, 2019
              Author:
              Hunt Allcott, Rebecca Diamond, Jean-Pierre Dubé, Jessie Handbury, Ilya Rahkovsky, Molly Schnell
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              Date:
              May, 2019
              Author:
              Rachel E. Goldberg, Marta Tienda, Michelle Eilers, Sara S. McLanahan

              Estimates of economic persistence and mobility in the United States, as measured by the intergenerational elasticity (IGE), cover a very wide range.

              Date:
              May, 2019
              Author:
              Mitnik, Pablo A., Bryant, Victoria, Weber, Michael

              The economic progress of U.S. men has stagnated in recent decades, with declining labor force participation and weak growth in real earnings, particularly for less educated and non-white men.

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              Date:
              February, 2019
              Author:
              Courtney Coile, Bruce Western

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